In "A Good Man is Hard to Find" how does O'Connor portray the grandmother? '

O'Connor
portrays the grandmother as a difficult, childish, and annoying woman. She takes great pride in
her status as a lady, dressing carefully for the road trip. She is sneaky, in that she smuggles
her cat into the car, unbeknownst to anyone. She is manipulativeshe knows she will not sway
Bailey to turn down the deserted country road that she thinks leads to an old mansion, so she
works on the children until they raise such a fuss their father gives in. She is a racist, and
she likes to talk tiresomely about the good old days, when things were supposedly
better.

While the grandmother is a difficult person, we can have some
sympathy for her because her family treats her dismissively and pays no attention to her
desires. The children are allowed to be rude to her. She is obviously a pain...